| Mayer's mucihematein stain | A violet-blue staining fluid containing aluminum chloride and haematein; used to detect connective tissue mucins. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mayer's haemalum stain | <technique> A progressive nuclear stain also used as a counterstain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer's mucicarmine stain | A red stain containing aluminum chloride and carmine; used to detect epithelial mucins and mucin-secreting adenocarcinomas; also used to demonstrate the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans and other fungi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucihematein | A violet-blue staining fluid containing aluminum chloride and haematein; used to detect connective tissue mucins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer, Karl | <person> Austrian neurologist, 1862-1932. See: Mayer's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer, Karl W | <person> German gynecologist, 1795-1868. See: Mayer's pessary. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer, Paul | <person> German histologist, 1848-1923. See: Mayer's haemalum stain, Mayer's mucicarmine stain, Mayer's mucihematein stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome | <syndrome> Primary amenorrhoea, absence of vagina, or presence of a short vaginal pouch, and absence of the uterus with normal karyotype and ovaries. Synonym: Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer's pessary | An elastic ring pessary. Synonym: Mayer's pessary. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayer's reflex | Opposition and adduction of the thumb with flexion at its metacarpophalangeal joint and extension at its interphalangeal joint, when firm passive flexion of the third, fourth, or fifth finger is made; the reflex is present normally but is absent in pyramidal lesions. Synonym: finger-thumb reflex, Mayer's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abbott's stain | <technique> Spores are stained blue with alkaline methylene blue; bodies of the bacilli become pink with eosin counterstain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aceto-orcein stain | <technique> A stain used for chromosomes in air-dried or squashed cytologic material. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acid-fast stain | <technique> A staining technique used to determine the cell wall property of a microorganism. After stained with dye such as hot carbolfuschin, an acid-fast organism, (for example Mycobacterium species) will retain the colour in its cell wall after being washed with acid-alcohol. (13 Nov 1997) |
| acid stain | <technique> A dye in which the anion is the coloured component of the dye molecule, e.g., sodium eosinate (eosin). (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ag-AS stain | <technique> A stain for the acid protein component of nucleolar regions which are active or which were transcriptionally active in the preceding interphase; uses silver nitrate, ammoniacal silver, and formalin. Synonym: Ag-AS stain. (05 Mar 2000) |